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Australian economy proceeding according to projections

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... released over the past 24 hours provide further credence to the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) optimism over the economic outlook and at the same time afford federal treasurer ScoMo the right to give Moody's recent warning the one finger salute. Moody's ...

Which part of the elephant are you holding?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017
... the cheap Australian dollar, should continue to underpin export growth. This is in line with the IMF's World Economic Outlook report update last month which stated that, "With buoyant financial markets and a long-awaited cyclical recovery in manufacturing ...

Fearless forecasting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2017
... strengthen somewhat further, and inflation will stabilise around 2% over the medium term. Near-term risks to the economic outlook appear roughly balanced," she said. Fair enough. The Fed's optimistic and at the same time prudent in its forecasts. Not ...

Damned if they do, damned if they don't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
... psychological level roundabout the time of US president Trump's failure to get Obamacare repealed/replaced. In its "World Economic Outlook Update" report released in January this year, the IMF predicted that the global economy would grow from 3.1% in ...

Obamacare one, Trump nil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
... the FOMC's decision to raise the fed funds rate by 25 bps to 0.75%-1.0%, Yellen stressed that: "As always, the economic outlook is highly uncertain, and participants will adjust their assessments of the appropriate path for the federal funds rate in ...

One Direction and the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... policy support relative to that implied path. Monetary policy can respond, in either direction, to changes to the economic outlook as they unfold to ensure a sustainable return of inflation to the 2% target."

One small rise in rates, one giant step towards normalisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
... Fed has to cover its behind - just in case. "...the actual path of the federal funds rate will depend on the economic outlook as informed by incoming data." So far, the economic and survey data released on the day the Fed announced its monetary policy ...

No other way but up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2017
... mentioned in the February monetary policy statement: "...the actual path of the federal funds rate will depend on the economic outlook as informed by incoming data". The optimism sparked by Trump's reflationary policies and generally better global growth ...

First of three (or more) coming next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... is likely to be appropriate. However, as I have noted, unless unanticipated developments adversely affect the economic outlook, the process of scaling back accommodation likely will not be as slow as it was during the past couple of years." Recent data ...

Wednesday delivery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2017
... admitted that the current administration's policies have created "considerable uncertainty" over forecasting the economic outlook. This uncertainty is becoming manifest in inflows to bonds (Factset quotes Bofa Merrill Lynch reporting the fourth straight ...